Data
Download this data file to your computer: TCP Spreadsheet
About the data
The data for this lesson is a part of the Data Carpentry Humanities workshop. It is a teaching version of the EEBO/TCP metadata catalogue. The data in this lesson is a subset of the teaching version that has been intentionally ‘messed up’ for this lesson.
The data for this lesson and the workshop are in the Humanities Lesson data
available for reuse.
Software
To interact with spreadsheets, we can use LibreOffice, Microsoft Excel, Gnumeric, OpenOffice.org, or other programs. Commands may differ a bit between programs, but general ideas for thinking about spreadsheets are the same.
For this lesson, if you don’t have a spreadsheet program already, you can use LibreOffice. It’s a free, open source spreadsheet program.
Windows
- Download the Installer
- Install LibreOffice by going to the installation page. The version for Windows should automatically be selected. Click Download Version X.X.X (whichever is the most recent version). You will go to a page that asks about a donation, but you don’t need to make one. Your download should begin automatically.
- Install LibreOffice
- Once the installer is downloaded, double click on it and LibreOffice should install.
Mac OS X
- Download the Installer
- Install LibreOffice by going to the installation page. The version for Mac should automatically be selected. Click Download Version X.X.X (whichever is the most recent version). You will go to a page that asks about a donation, but you don’t need to make one. Your download should begin automatically.
- Install LibreOffice
- Once the installer is downloaded, double click on it and LibreOffice should install.
Linux
- Download the Installer
- Install LibreOffice by going to the installation page. The version for Linux should automatically be selected. Click Download Version X.X.X (whichever is the most recent version). You will go to a page that asks about a donation, but you don’t need to make one. Your download should begin automatically.
- Install LibreOffice
- Once the installer is downloaded, double click on it and LibreOffice should install.